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In 2007, The Pirates's Gospel wrote its drugged-up folk
onto the heart of gospel. Alela Diane brought her staggering voice
to this first album. It would be a hit with fans of Cat Power and
Karen Dalton… A decade later, the Californian set up in Portland,
setting up in a house in the middle of the woods, surely a kind of
re-fuelling after the birth of her daughter two years earlier…
There, the songwriter set aside her acoustic guitar for a grand
piano on which she created the songs on Cusp, the fifth
album from a woman who had decided to draw up a balance sheet which
was as much personal as it was artistic.

When they released The Big Black And The Blue in 2010, Johanna and Klara Söderberg were 20 and 23 years old respectively. The two Swedish sisters quickly made a name for themselves at the top of the charts thanks to their covers of songs by Fleet Foxes, Lorde, Jack White and even Black Sabbath… T...